Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead (IoT & Cloud Platforms)

Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead (IoT & Cloud Platforms)

📍 Huskvarna, Sweden

📄 12-Month Rolling Contract

🚀 Start: August 2026

The Opportunity

We're supporting an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead to join a highly skilled engineering team developing next-generation IoT and Connected Platform Services.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll help shape scalable cloud-native solutions while mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across a modern distributed platform.

You'll be working throughout the full software lifecycle—from architecture and development through to deployment, operations, CI/CD and continuous improvement—within an agile engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to the development of cloud-native software solutions.
• Develop scalable microservices using TypeScript, Go (Golang) and Java.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and code reviews.
• Work closely with Architects, Product Owners and Engineering teams to define technical solutions.
• Design and implement distributed, event-driven architectures.
• Develop REST APIs and gRPC services.
• Build highly available, scalable backend systems.
• Support CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices.
• Improve platform reliability, performance, observability and maintainability.
• Guide architectural decisions while balancing delivery, scalability and long-term maintainability.

Required Skills

We're keen to speak with engineers who have strong experience in:

Software Development

• TypeScript
• Go (Golang)
• Java

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS
• Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Docker / Containerisation
• Infrastructure as Code

Backend Technologies

• Event-Driven Architecture
• Microservices
• REST APIs
• gRPC
• AMQP
• JSON / JSON Schema

Databases

• MongoDB
• SQL Databases
• AWS RDS
• Redis / Valkey

DevOps

• CI/CD
• Automated Testing
• Monitoring
• Operations
• Continuous Delivery

Desirable Experience

Experience within any of the following would be highly beneficial:

• IoT Platforms
• Connected Products
• Industrial IoT
• Digital Twins
• Message Queues
• High-Performance Systems
• Low-Latency Architectures
• Data Lakes
• Time Series Data

What We're Looking For

• Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead or Technical Architect experience.
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills.
• Excellent problem-solving ability.
• Passion for cloud-native technologies and modern software engineering.
• Comfortable working in agile, collaborative engineering teams.
• Strong communication skills and fluent English.

What's on Offer?

• 12-month rolling contract
• Long-term programme with excellent extension potential
• Modern cloud-native technology stack
• Technical leadership role with hands-on development
• Collaborative engineering culture
• Opportunity to influence architecture and technical direction

If you're an experienced Senior Software Engineer or Tech Lead looking for your next long-term contract, we'd love to hear from you.